Installed gxine, Firefox No Longer Uses Mplayer Plugin

I loaded gxine last night via pacman, and all was well until I realized that Firefox no longer uses the Mplayer plug in for MPGs in web pages - now it uses gxine's plug in, which I don't like as well.
Is there a way to configure which plug-in Firefox uses for a particular media type, or do I have to resort to deleting the plug in from Firefox's plug in directory?
Thanks!

I had this problem too. I think it's related to v. 1.5.
I can't remember exactly how I fixed it, but I think this is it (from mozillazine):
Type about:config into the address bar
Find the preference browser.download.pluginOverrideTypes, right-click on it and select reset.
Find the preference plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types, right-click on it and select reset.
Both those preferences should now be empty. If one or both of the preferences is missing, don't worry - that's good.
Close Firefox, then go into your profile folder: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder
And delete the file 'mimeTypes.rdf'
This seems to me to be the result of the consistent policy of FF to become more and more Windows-like by making choices for you, by assuming that all users are stupid and that the devels know best. I may be wrong, but they are so persistent in bashing Opera for all the "clutter", which to me means "configurability". Bad policy, IMHO.

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